The open-source first person shooter World of Padman is now at version 1.5! Additional features include a new game type, new maps, new player models, a new weapon, and new powerups.
Download: [ myexp.de ]
The Linux Game Cast has two new installments looking at:
The always awesome Wolfire Games, developers of the upcoming rabbit fighting game Overgrowth (sequel to the open-sourced Lugaru), have posted their weekly alpha update, number 111:
The alpha releases are available for pre-ordering customers.
Xonotic, a fast paced, free and open source first person shooter forked in response to the licensing of Nexuiz to Illfonic, now has its first preview release (thanks Loafers!).
Xonotic diverges from Nexuiz in many ways:
Download: [xonotic.org]
Wolfire Games have updated their blog to announce that the second Humble Indie Bundle has concluded:
The Humble Indie Bundle #2 is now over. Thanks everyone for your overwhelming support! The bundle has broken all of our expectations once again: the total payments exceeded $1.8 million! We should have more detailed statistics soon.
Since you exceeded the $1.75M threshold, Revenge of the Titans will release its source code as promised as soon as they can get it packaged up and figure out licensing and hosting details.
If you purchased the bundle, the download links will continue to work indefinitely so you can download your games whenever you want, for any platform. If you ever lose your download page link, you can just go to humblebundle.com and click the ‘Key Resender’ button, and we will send it to you again. Also, as some of you requested, you can increase your contribution at any time from the download page — people have already increased their orders by over $19,000, which is incredibly humbling!
The latest development release of Wine has been announced. This version 1.3.10, has the following new items in this release:
Download: [ Wine 1.3.10 ]
Ubuntu Gamer recently conducted an interview with Aviv Sharon of Wildfire Games about the open source real-time strategy game project 0 A.D.:
Q: What new features have you got planned for the future?
We can say for sure that there will definitely be these before the game goes gold: Opponent AI; Better multiplayer (latency, lobby, diplomacy); Formations; Territories; Random map generation; Gate & Wall system; Save & Load games (single and multiplayer).
The project’s history and dev team are also discussed.
Notch has announced that Minecraft, the survival/building and oh yeah, mining, game is now officially in beta. The website is returning an error code for me presently, but here’s what’s new:
Also, if you weren’t in the alpha, the price of the game has now risen to 14.95 Euro.
The free (as in beer and open source) tank simulation Zero Ballistics is now at version 2.0. Current features:
Download: [ AtomicGamer | sf.net | zeroballistics.com ]
The release of Warsow version 0.6, an open-source first-person shooter featuring trick-jumping boars, has been announced. There are new maps, re-textured weapons models, class-based CTF, a new soundtrack, and performance optimizations.
Download: [ AtomicGamer | warsow.net ]
I’m on vacation! Yay!
Thanks for your email.
We have forwarded it along to our production and development team. We are always looking for new platforms to port the games to and Ubuntu has been
requested, but it has yet to materialize in to an actual release. Perhaps with more requests like yours, it may make its way on to the platform.
There’s a bit more info on Digital Arrow’s upcoming Linux RPG, Dilogus: The Winds of War, from Unigine today by way of a press release:
It’s a third person High Fantasy RPG action game that immerses players deep into the awe inspiring fantasy world of Dilogus, allowing them to experience it from multiple perspectives of six unique characters in both single player and co-operative multiplayer mode on Linux and Windows platforms.
Dilogus – Winds of War is based on a fictional fantasy universe, which was polished for over seven years. Being a fantasy RPG the game immerses the player into a fantasy world, allowing them to play their characters any way possible. The open world feature of the game fuels this option and makes sure the players have enough choices.
More after the jump…
What’s your game of the year? GO!
Wolfire Games’ blog has a new entry delineating the programming decisions made while creating Overgrowth’s graphics engine.
Alien Arena 2011 (i.e. version 7.50) has been released. Changes in this open source deathmatch first-person shooter include:
Download: [ icculus.org ]
The Humble Indie Bundle 2 has already raised over half a million dollars ($631,236.29 as of this writing); moreover, as with the previous bundle, Linux users have the highest average donation amount! Who says there isn’t a commercial Linux games market?
Currently the highest donation comes from notch, lead developer and creator of Minecraft.
Also, on a personal note, it’s really awesome Wolfire Games is coordinating this :)
id Software has released a major content update for Quake Live, their browser plugin-based iteration of the Quake series: 3 new arenas for premium subscribers, 2 holiday arenas for everyone, and Premium Duel Scoreboards.
More details after the jump…
Gaming on Linux interviewed developers from the M.A.R.S project this week:
[Q] How would you describe M.A.R.S. as a game?
It’s a new game with an old concept. It combines the great ancient arcade gameplay with some astonishing graphics and adds some fresh new game modes. Furthermore the two of us share a strange but funny humor and try to put it into this game. The steampunk-look in combination with neon is the best proof. Simply ridiculous.
Odamex version 0.5.1 has been released. Odamex is a multiplayer DOOM source port; change that impact Linux users include ZDoom-inspired features and higher client resolution support.
Download: [ odamex.net ]